Rasak
راسك
A city with two districts, whose sugar cane is plentiful; refined sugar is made there and carried to distant lands. 1
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Rasak is a city with two districts, according to al-Idrisi. Sugar cane abounds in its districts. Fanid, which is refined sugar, is made there and carried to all horizons. 2
Sources
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p. 174
- Al-Idrisi, Nuzhat al-Mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq (Cairo: Maktabat al-Thaqafa al-Diniyya, 2002), 2 vols., p.174
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islam.museum contributors. “Rasak”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/rasak/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.